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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of … inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland …, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400803
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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052312
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Job polarization on local labor markets? : paper prepared for presentation at the Tasks IV Conference, Mannheim 29 July 2016
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang - 2016
In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867038
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Job polarization on local labor markets
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. However, there exists no measure that allows a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401761
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Structural change and wage inequality : evidence from German micro data
Henze, Philipp - 2014
This paper measures the impact of sectoral composition, international trade and technological progress on the rising wage gap in Germany. I find a positive effect of the increasing importance of services on the rising wage gap in Germany that is comparable to the effects of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340389
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The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of … inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland …, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262471
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Worker specialization and the consequences of occupational decline
Ek, Simon - 2025
Are workers with poor outside opportunities less responsive and more susceptible to negative demand shifts in routine occupations? To answer this, I create and estimate an occupation specialization index (OSI) using Swedish register data and machine learning tools. It measures the expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015407789
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The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Newell, Andrew - 2021
countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of … inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland …, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321013
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Product Variety, Finite Changes and Wage Inequality
Dutta, Meghna - 2020
North and the South on production reorganization and two-sided wage inequality.We obtain conditions under which the … technological changes, but by factor mobility. The results further suggest that the wage inequality rises in both countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849836
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Wages Over the Course of Structural Transformation : Evidence from India
Hasan, Rana - 2019
This paper uses labor force survey data from India for 2000 and 2012 to examine how wages behave over the course of structural transformation. We find that wage employment between 2000 and 2012 displays the patterns one would expect for an economy undergoing structural transformation, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863215